Along the Colorado
August 4 - September 28, 2022
Curated by Sapira Cheuk
Nevada Humanities Program Gallery
1017 South 1st Street, #190, Las Vegas
Along the Colorado, curated by Nevada artist Sapira Cheuk, includes paintings, mixed media, and video works that explore the water crisis faced by the desert Southwest, the nation, and the planet. On August 16, 2021, the United States Bureau of Reclamation declared the first-ever official water shortage for the Colorado River Basin. For the seven states along the Colorado River, this has meant new and increased water use restrictions and evolving interstate relationships, not only to the river, but also between each other. Along the Colorado includes artists, scientists, and advocates from Colorado River Basin states whose works explore the scarcity, commodification, conservation, legality, and politics of water use. Along the Colorado will feature the following contributors: Jess Benjamin, John Fleck, Alexander Heilner, Patrick Kikut, Michael B. Mason, Dr. Thomas Minckley, Cody Perry, Kyle Roerink, Sean D. Russell, Cliff Segerblom, Jen Urso, and Marc Wise.
Curator Sapira Cheuk is an ink painter and installation artist. Her practice incorporates traditional Chinese Sumi painting techniques and geometric elements to depict the complexity of the subject, agency, and corporeality, while building an alternative narrative of not only bodily experiences, but also intersubjective relations. Cheuk has exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including those at the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Orange County Contemporary Art Center, Masur Museum, The Netura Museum, Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside Art Museum, Rochester Contemporary Art Museum, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey Museum of Art, and The Robert & Frances Fullerton Museum of Art. She currently lives and works in Las Vegas, Nevada. She received her BA at the University of California, Riverside, and MFA from California State University, San Bernardino.
The exhibition will be open to the public for viewing by appointment only Tuesdays through Thursdays from 1 to 4 pm, and until 9 pm the first Friday of the month for First Friday events at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery. The Nevada Humanities Program Gallery is located at 1017 South 1st Street, #190 in Las Vegas; in-person viewing is open until September 28, 2022. An in-person reception will take place at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery in Las Vegas on Saturday, August 6, 2022, from 3 to 6 pm PDT with monitored entry to accommodate social distancing. An exhibition discussion, led by exhibition curator Sapira Cheuk, will be held in Art Square Suite 150, which is adjacent to the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery courtyard, at 4 pm on August 6 and simultaneously broadcast on Facebook Live. Space is limited and masks will be required regardless of vaccination status.
Contact Bobbie Ann Howell at bahowell@nevadahumanities.org or 702-800-4670 to make a viewing appointment.
A conversation with Dr. Thomas Minkley and artist Patrick Kikut.